Brown v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Lee county. Hon. John H. Mitchell, Judge. Albert Brown being convicted of manslaughter appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The sixteenth assignment of error refers to the action of the court in permitting counsel for the state to comment on the failure of the defendant to produce his brother and father as witnesses in his behalf.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Lee county. Hon. John H. Mitchell, Judge. Albert Brown being convicted of manslaughter appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The sixteenth assignment of error refers to the action of the court in permitting counsel for the state to comment on the failure of the defendant to produce his brother and father as witnesses in his behalf. The attention of the court was called at the time the argument was being made, and a special bill of exceptions taken at that time. Under the testimony in this case it is as reasonable to believe that…
1Opinion of the Court
McWillie, special judge,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellant, on an .indictment for the murder of Alonzo Addison, was 'convicted of manslaughter. The deceased, a youth under twenty years of age, was at the time of the homicide engaged, with two companions, in stealing watermelons by night from the melon patch of a brother of the appellant. It is claimed on behalf of the appellant that the court below erred in submitting to the jury the question of whether or not he was guilty of murder; manslaughter being the only crime of which he could be convicted, since the deceased was…
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